Pocono Farms East resident Theresa Rondon, who lives on Cambell Way, was driving home shortly before 9 p.m. Sunday when she saw the dog chained to the stop sign at the corner of Cambell Way and Gordon Lane. Someone had looped the chain around the base of the stop sign and then secured both ends around the dog’s neck with a lock.

“She looked really scared,” Rondon said. “I got home and told my husband. We came back with dog food and fed her.”

The couple then told neighbor Jesus Vega.

“I came out and looked for the dog, but it was dark and I didn’t see or hear anything,” Vega said. “I didn’t get too close to see."

Although the stop sign is in an area surrounded by homes, no other neighbors apparently saw or heard the dog during the night.

Vega came back out to the stop sign at about 5:30 a.m. today and saw the dog. This contradicts a reader who has posted on the Pocono Record forum, saying they live on Cambell Way and saw no dog when they drove by that location this morning.

There is a ditch next to the stop sign where the dog was chained. Vega thinks the dog was hidden in the ditch, with the chain lying flat and hidden in the bushes, at the time he went out to look Sunday night.

When seeing the dog this morning, Vega called 911 and police arrived within minutes, but said they could do nothing and that animal rescue had to be contacted.

Neighbors brought the dog food and water, but she wouldn't let them get close enough to try freeing her. Neighbors said the dog appeared to have been abused and, as a result, didn't trust them.

Neighbors contacted Monroe County dog warden George Nixon, who arrived at about noon. With Vega's help, Nixon got the dog free and then took her.